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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS
General Certificate of Education
Advanced Level
9706/43
ACCOUNTING
Paper 4 Problem Solving (Supplementary Topics)
May/June 2010
2 hours
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Answer all questions.
All accounting statements are to be presented in good style. Workings should be shown.
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Deeti and Neel have been in partnership for some years sharing profits and losses equally. Interest
on capital has been at 5%. Depreciation on equipment has been provided monthly at a rate of 10%
per annum on the straight line basis.
On 1 January 2009 their balance sheet was as follows:
$
$
Non-current (fixed) assets
Equipment
Accumulated depreciation
50 000
40 000
10 000
Current assets
Inventory (stock)
Trade receivables (debtors)
Cash and cash equivalents (bank)
Current liabilities
Trade payables (creditors)
Accrued rent
$
22 000
17 000
6 000
45 000
9 000
500
9 500
Net current assets (working capital)
35 500
45 500
Capital accounts
Deeti
Neel
24 000
18 000
Current accounts
Deeti
Neel
7 000
(3 500)
42 000
3 500
45 500
Deeti and Neel wished to expand their business and on 1 July 2009 they admitted Armand into the
partnership.
Armand owned premises which he transferred to the partnership on that date at an agreed
valuation of $100 000. This comprised $65 000 for the land and $35 000 for the buildings.
The partnership ceased to rent premises on 30 June 2009 and sold all the existing equipment on
that date.
The partnership bought new equipment on 1 July 2009 for its new building, taking out a 6% bank
loan of $40 000 on that date to finance the purchase in part.
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It was agreed from 1 July 2009 that
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The three partners would share profits equally.
Armand would have an annual salary of $16 000.
The rate of interest on capital would increase to 8%.
Buildings would be depreciated monthly at a rate of 2% per annum.
The rate of depreciation on equipment would remain unchanged.
Goodwill at 1 July 2009 was valued at $18 000 but was not to be retained in the books.
A summary of the cash book for the year showed the following:
Receipts from customers
Payments to suppliers
Rent paid
Other costs
Proceeds of sale of equipment
Purchase of equipment
Drawings
Deeti
Neel
Armand
6 months to
30 June 2009
$
191 000
102 000
3 500
51 000
6 500
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6 months to
31 December 2009
$
237 000
119 000
–
57 000
–
62 000
11 000
15 000
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12 000
14 000
18 000
At 30 June 2009
$
21 000
14 000
12 000
At 31 December 2009
$
28 000
24 000
20 000
Other information was as follows:
Inventory (stock)
Trade receivables (debtors)
Trade payables (creditors)
During April 2009 a bad debt of $1000 was written off.
REQUIRED
(a) Prepare the partners’ capital accounts in columnar format for the year ended
31 December 2009.
[7]
(b) Prepare income statements (trading and profit and loss accounts) and appropriation accounts
for each of the 6 month periods ended 30 June 2009 and 31 December 2009.
[19]
(c) Prepare the partners’ current accounts in columnar format for the year ended
31 December 2009.
[10]
(d) Using the figures given, state one advantage and one disadvantage arising from Deeti and
Neel’s decision to expand by admitting Armand into the partnership.
[4]
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The following information is available about Grist plc:
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In 2001 it issued at $0.75 a number of ordinary shares with a nominal value of $0.50
each. At the same time it issued at par a number of 5% preference shares of $1 each.
During 2007 Grist Ltd issued $200 000 6% debentures repayable in 2018.
On 1 January 2009 the balance on the profit and loss account was $62 000.
On 31 December 2009 the non-current (fixed) assets had a value of $610 000.
Further information relating to 2009 is as follows:
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Interest cover was 16 times.
The tax charge for the year was calculated as 20% of profit before tax.
The ordinary dividends paid during the year were $54 000.
Earnings per share were $0.22.
Dividend per share was $0.09.
The directors decided to create a general reserve of $30 000.
The market value of the ordinary shares was $2.50.
REQUIRED
(a) Starting with profit from operations (operating profit), prepare a statement to calculate the
retained profit for the year ended 31 December 2009.
[11]
(b) Giving as much detail as possible, prepare the balance sheet at 31 December 2009.
[10]
(c) Calculate:
(i)
the dividend cover
(ii)
the price earnings ratio
(iii)
the dividend yield
(iv)
the gearing ratio
(v)
the return on capital employed.
[14]
Vaughan plc is a company in the same line of business as Grist plc and is in a similar location.
The following ratios have been calculated for Vaughan plc:
Gearing ratio
Return on capital employed
Dividend cover
63.8%
22.1%
1.8 times
REQUIRED
(d) Compare and comment on the performance of Grist plc and Vaughan plc in the light of these
ratios.
[5]
[Total: 40]
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Ridgeway Ltd manufactures two products, Product A and Product B. The following information is
available:
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Ridgeway Ltd employs 26 production staff who usually work 150 hours a month each at
a rate of $10 an hour.
14 work on the production of Product A.
12 work on the production of Product B.
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In a normal month production of
Product A requires 4200 kg of raw material at $8.20 per kg.
Product B requires 3500 kg of raw material at $8.80 per kg.
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An average unit of Product A uses 3 kg of raw material and 2 machine hours.
An average unit of Product B uses 3.5 kg of raw material and 3 machine hours.
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Monthly fixed overheads total $42 760.
REQUIRED
(a) Calculate the overhead absorption rate on the basis of:
(i)
machine hours
(ii)
labour hours
(iii)
total direct material cost.
[8]
(b) Using the overhead absorption rate on the basis of machine hours, calculate the selling price
of one unit of Product B which gives a profit of 50% on cost.
[5]
(c) Explain what is meant by the under-absorption and over-absorption of overheads.
[4]
In March 2010 Ridgeway Ltd produced and sold 1600 units of Product A at a total sales value of
$125 760.
It bought and used 4600 kg of raw material at a cost of $40 480 and it employed production staff for
2200 hours at a cost of $22 440.
The sales price variance for the month was $4672 adverse.
REQUIRED
(d) Calculate the following for Product A, for March 2010:
(i)
materials price variance
(ii)
materials usage variance
(iii)
total materials variance
(iv)
labour rate variance
(v)
labour efficiency variance
(vi)
total labour variance.
[12]
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(e) Calculate the standard selling price per unit of product A.
[3]
(f)
[8]
State four advantages of using a standard costing system.
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